# Medicine for the 99 percent

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxCanberra
- Speaker: Thomas Pogge
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Economics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_pogge_medicine_for_the_99_percent)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Sad but true: Many of the cures and vaccines our world desperately needs -- for illnesses millions of people have -- just aren't being produced or developed, because there's no financial incentive. Thomas Pogge proposes a $6 billion plan to revolutionize the way medications are developed and sold.

## Lectures

1. [Medicine for the 99 percent](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/thomas_pogge_medicine_for_the_99_percent/a3a7cb07cdd2), 18 min (TED's player)